Guide to the F. Jay Haynes & Bro. Photograph Album
Circa 1891

Biographical Note

F. Jay Haynes was a photographer who traveled extensively in the West and who was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. He was also the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and for a time he even maintained a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio which was called the "Haynes Palace Studio." He opened his first studio in 1876 in Moorhead, Minnesota, and in 1879 opened a larger studio in Fargo, North Dakota. In 1889 he began operating out of St. Paul, Minnesota. In the period just before the Yukon gold rush, when tourist travel to Alaska was increasing, Haynes traveled to Alaska. The 1891 trip was a financial success as Haynes was able to tap into the high demand for stereoscopic prints and other photographs, although the most valuable photographs were those he took of glaciers.

Scope and Content

The first page of this album indicates that it was photographed and published by "F. Jay Haynes & Bro." and was probably produced for sale. It contains images from Haynes's 1891 journey to the Inside Passage and Glacier Bay in southeast Alaska. Included are photographs of Juneau, Sitka Harbor, the Muir Glacier, totem poles, and steamers.

Acquisition Info

Source: Don Ulrich, 2002. Discard from City Library, Lincoln, NB.

Processing Info

Processed by Nick Bickwell and Jocelyn Spicer, 2002.

Inventory

Page
0			Table of Contents
1			Steamer landing at Ft. Wrangel
2			Tlingit whale and bear totem poles at Ft. Wrangel
3			Davidson Glacier
4-5			Taku Glacier
6			Juneau
7			Auk Glacier
8			Pattison Glacier
9			Chilkat Peaks
10			Chilkat, Alaska
11			Steamer Queen in ice
12			Steamer Queen approaching the Muir Glacier
13-16			Muir Glacier
17-18			Crevasse in Muir Glacier
19			Ice peaks in Muir Glacier
20			Muir Glacier and Bay
21			Glacier Bay
22			Sitka Harbor
23			Lincoln Street, Sitka
24			Ocean, viewed from Sitka
Subject Terms
	Subjects:
		Glaciers--Alaska--Alaska Panhandle--Photographs.
		Steamboats--Alaska--Alaska Panhandle--Photographs.
	Geographic Names:
		Alaska Panhandle (Alaska)--Photographs.
		Muir Glacier (Alaska)--Photographs.
	Genre Headings:
		Photograph albums.